Month: January 2023
Google is shutting its website experience and optimization tool
Audio player loading… Google Optimize, formerly known as Google Website Optimizer, and Optimize 360 will no longer be available after September 30, 2023. The freemium testing tool and web analytics company allows users to run experiments to help online marketers increase visitor conversion rates for websites. Google says that for…
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Strava will add high-res 3D maps for outdoor activities
Strava routes are about to get three-dimensional. The popular fitness social network announced today that it’s acquired Fatmap, a mobile app known for its 3D maps for outdoor sports like hiking, trail running, skiing, and mountain biking. “Fatmap tech will power Strava maps for both free members and subscribers,” Strava…
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Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out has a long name and a lot of heart
It’s pretty easy to look at a film title like Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out — which, from now on, I’m just calling Aliens Abducted My Parents — and roll your eyes. It’s just so goofy. (And admittedly makes it really hard to write…
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Google Ads hijacked to push spam, adult websites
Audio player loading… Hackers have been detected abusing a Google Ads feature to deliver adult websites and infostealing (opens in new tab) websites to unsuspecting victims. Google Ads, the search engine giant’s advertising platform, has a feature allowing users to invite other people to the account administration interface. The invitations…
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We are now 90 seconds to our doom
Fellow humans, we are now just 90 seconds away from our doom — also known as midnight on the Doomsday Clock. It’s “a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation,” according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which sets the time each year. And we’ve never been closer to…
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Intel planning hundreds of job cuts
Audio player loading… Intel’s plans to lay off hundreds of workers have been revealed in a host of paperwork. A series of new entries in the California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) database have uncovered Intel’s plans to lay off a number of workers in the area starting this…
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